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'Black America' Alt-History Drama in the Works at Amazon
Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 1, 2017 | Bryn Elise Sandberg

Posted on 08/01/2017 10:07:17 AM PDT by EdnaMode

A week after HBO's botched announcement of its upcoming slavery drama Confederate, Amazon is partnering with Will Packer for its own alt-history series.

The streaming service is developing Black America, a drama that envisions an alternate history where newly freed African Americans have secured the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama post-Reconstruction as reparations for slavery, and with that land, the freedom to shape their own destiny. The drama hails from prolific producer Packer (Girls Trip, Ride Along) and Peabody-winning The Boondocks creator and Black Jesus co-creator Aaron McGruder.

In the show, the sovereign nation formed, New Colonia, has had a tumultuous and sometimes violent relationship with its looming “Big Neighbor,” both ally and foe, the United States. The past 150 years have been witness to military incursions, assassinations, regime change, coups, etc. Today, after two decades of peace with the US and unprecedented growth, an ascendant New Colonia joins the ranks of major industrialized nations on the world stage as America slides into rapid decline. Inexorably tied together, the fate of two nations, indivisible, hangs in the balance.

Deadline first announced news of the Amazon project in February — but at the time, the producers wouldn't reveal any additional details about the series except that it would take place in an alternate universe in the vein of another Amazon series, The Man in the High Castle, which takes a look at what the world might look like had the outcome of World War II turned out differently.

HBO's announcement of Confederate, from Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, is what prompted the producers behind Black America to unveil the show's premise. “It felt this was the appropriate time to make sure that audiences and the creative community knew that there was a project that preexisted and we are pretty far down the road with it,” Packer told Deadline.

Amazon's interest in the series was first reported by Ankler.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: amazon; blackamerica; hollywood; television
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

In the revisionist sense,the most humane thing to have done would be to repatriate every slave back to Africa. The colonial giants of British,Dutch,Spanish traders among others get off very light in their role in slavery.


21 posted on 08/01/2017 10:59:14 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’ll take Ernie K Doe instead!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CejaCa6Eewc


22 posted on 08/01/2017 11:13:58 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EdnaMode

Blacktopia would have been a better name.


23 posted on 08/01/2017 11:19:22 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: EdnaMode

According to this, the Union fought a vicious war to stop states from seceding. Then they would give three of those states so the blacks could secede and form a new country.

Even bias must have a smidgeon of reality to be considered real.


24 posted on 08/01/2017 11:20:15 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: shanover

Humane for whom? Certainly not the blacks being sent back to Africa. Muhammad Ali famously said that he was eternally grateful that his ancestors had been slaves, otherwise he would been nothing, living in squalor, and dead at an early age from a curable disease.


25 posted on 08/01/2017 11:22:35 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: EdnaMode

Eff that crap


26 posted on 08/01/2017 11:23:29 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You believe your fairy tale

This is the problem with conservatism


27 posted on 08/01/2017 11:24:57 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Exactly but look how many dumbass Yankees here drink the same koolaid

Why if only the white man had done right all blacks would behave like Ben Carson and look like Thandie Newton and Lenny Kravitz


28 posted on 08/01/2017 11:27:08 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: EdnaMode

Otherwise, Bar-b-qued chicken would be the national bird?


29 posted on 08/01/2017 11:31:33 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; Pelham; chasio649

Precisely

Lincoln over the libtard radical republicans any day

People here lauding reconstruction should have tried living it disenfranchised in black majority or near majority states under union occupation

Whites then much like now feared the nature of group black behavior

Something stupid Yankee no blacks around freepers will never comprehend

And I’ve been here 17 years


30 posted on 08/01/2017 11:33:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: EdnaMode
Why not just run the series that SHOULD have been history: "LIBERIA"? Dare to IMAGINE how much more productive and safe America would be if what Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and even Abraham Lincoln wanted had come true...millions of Blacks sent back to a free Liberia.
31 posted on 08/01/2017 11:39:06 AM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

> Facts are not racist: There is not a single successful majority-black country in the world. <

True enough. But it’s also worth noting that most black countries were shaken silly by colonialism. And the most enduring damage that colonialism did to those countries was the drawing of artificial borders, lumping together tribes that hated each other.

Sort of like forcing Napoleon’s France to merge with Bismarck’s Prussia. Gonna be lots of problems going forward.


32 posted on 08/01/2017 11:39:07 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: EdnaMode
Can't wait to miss it.

No use speculating, but I will point out that the success of Man In The High Castle is at least partly because nobody likes the Nazis. This won't be like that, and if it is, best of luck.

33 posted on 08/01/2017 11:41:01 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: EdnaMode

Who will play the American version of Toussaint l’Overture?


34 posted on 08/01/2017 11:49:09 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: Leaning Right

You must be joking. Colonialism gave every country affected the tools it needed to succeed. South Africa had the 2nd highest standard of living in the world 30 years ago. Today, after a few decades of black rule, it stands at the precipice of complete dissolution.


35 posted on 08/01/2017 11:54:15 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Leaning Right

Study some history.

Same thing happened in India, and they managed to stay together and thrive.


36 posted on 08/01/2017 12:06:50 PM PDT by redgolum
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

> Colonialism gave every country affected the tools it needed to succeed. <

Oh yes, that’s true. Railroads, universities, factories, etc. But it’s tough to run an artificial country when the tribe in the north hates the tribe in the south, and visa versa.

Now, that doesn’t apply to every last black country. And it doesn’t entirely explain the corruption in those countries. But it’s nevertheless a big part of the problem.


37 posted on 08/01/2017 12:07:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: EdnaMode

Well gee Chicago and LA and SF and NYC plus Atlanta

All cities large and failing. Dems run em all. Why not have a story about that?


38 posted on 08/01/2017 12:11:51 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: redgolum

> Same thing happened in India, and they managed to stay together and thrive.

Not the best example. After the British left India there was horrific fighting between the Hindus and the Muslims, two “tribes” that hated each other.

Now imagine there was no India-Pakistan partition, and those two tribes were forced to share one country. That’s the situation in much of black Africa today. Periods of peace broken up by great violence. Hard to run a country that way.


39 posted on 08/01/2017 12:14:02 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

A big problem South Africa faces today is refugees from the rest of the continent flooding into there, since it’s still light years ahead of the rest of the continent in terms of the economy.


40 posted on 08/01/2017 12:14:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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